Unicode characters in RegExp

[Ron Brennan]

I'm trying to test a character for not being uppercase, including Unicode
Latin-1.

The following JavaScript expression doesn't work. It is embedded in a
servlet that targets IE 5 or later.

if (/[^A-Z \u00C0-\u00D6 \u00D8-\u00DF]/.test(stest))

Probably something obvious to those of you working with RegExp more than me.

Thanks,
Ron

 

[Evertjan.]

Ron Brennan wrote on 21 nov 2004 in comp.lang.javascript:

I'm trying to test a character for not being uppercase, including
Unicode Latin-1.

The following JavaScript expression doesn't work. It is embedded in a
servlet that targets IE 5 or later.

if (/[^A-Z \u00C0-\u00D6 \u00D8-\u00DF]/.test(stest))

Probably something obvious to those of you working with RegExp more
than me.

Works fine here [btw, leave the spaces out]

stest='é'
alert(/[^A-Z\u00C0-\u00D6\u00D8-\u00DF]/.test(stest))

stest='É'
alert(/[^A-Z\u00C0-\u00D6\u00D8-\u00DF]/.test(stest))

 

[Ron Brennan]

Works fine here [btw, leave the spaces out]

stest='é'
alert(/[^A-Z\u00C0-\u00D6\u00D8-\u00DF]/.test(stest))

stest='É'
alert(/[^A-Z\u00C0-\u00D6\u00D8-\u00DF]/.test(stest))

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress,
but let us keep the discussions in the newsgroup)

Works fine here too, once I commented out the part of the program that was
causing the problem.

Thanks again Evertjan,
Ron